Re: PostgreSQL vs Firebird feature comparison finished - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Thomas Kellerer
Subject Re: PostgreSQL vs Firebird feature comparison finished
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL vs Firebird feature comparison finished  ("Alexander Staubo" <alex@purefiction.net>)
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Alexander Staubo wrote on 24.08.2007 23:49:
>>> So actually the remark shouldn't be that "the multi-threaded
>>> architecture is only advantageous  on Windows", but more like "the
>>> multi-process architecture is disadvantageous on Windows and hence a
>>> multi-threaded architecture is preferred (on that particular OS)".
>> Yeah - but I'm not sure thats necessarily something that should have a
>> place on a bullet point comparison.
>
> You solve it by letting the category be labeled "Process/thread
> architecture", and letting the columns say "Thread-based" for Firebird
> and "Process-based" for PostgreSQL respectively.

To my understanding Firebird offers a choice between thread-based (Superserver)
and process-based (Classic) at least on the Windows platform.

Thomas

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